Screening and Discussion with co-director Paulo Cruz

The 23-minute documentary, directed by Nica Tedesco and Paulo Cruz Terra, explores the meanings of vegrancy in post-abolition Brazilian history. Through an intersectional lens of class, gender, race, and sexuality, the film examines who was labeled a "vagrant" and the possibilities of resistence against criminalization.

Engaging in dialoge with four female activists: Neusa Maria Pereira (Journalist, co-founder of the Movimiento Negro Unificado), Shirley Krenak (Indigenous activist of the Krenk people), Jovanna Baby (Founder of the organized transgender movement in Brazil), Nataraj Trinta (historiam, organizer of the Slut Walk in Rio de Janeiro)

The film is in Portuguese with English subtitles.

We are honored to have Paulo Cruz Terra, co-director of the film, present at the screening. A professor of history at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and fellow at the Bonn Center for Dependence and Slavery Studies, he will participate in a discussion following the screening, reflecting on the production process and his research in oral and public history. The discussion will be held in English.